Lamentations 5:3-5

Easy-to-Read Version

³ We have become orphans.
    We have no father.
    Our mothers have become like widows.
⁴ We have to buy the water that we drink.
    We have to pay for the wood that we use.
⁵ We are forced to wear a yoke on our necks.
    We get tired, and we have no rest.